On 04/05/13 06:00, Rusty Russell wrote: > Sebastian Wankerl <sisew...@cip.cs.fau.de> writes: >> On 04/04/13 03:00, Rusty Russell wrote: >>> Sebastian Wankerl <sisew...@cip.cs.fau.de> writes: >>>> Add non-zero module sections to sysfs on architectures unequal to PARISC. >>>> KGDB needs all module sections for proper module debugging. Therefore, >>>> commit >>>> 35dead4235e2b67da7275b4122fed37099c2f462 is revoked except for PARISC >>>> architecture. >>> #ifdef CONFIG_PARISC in the middle of kernel/module.c is super-ugly, and >>> wrong. >> I don't see why this is wrong. It used to load all sections to sysfs >> until the patch mentioned. Actually, it is the PARISC build chain which >> is broken.
We worked on that topic further. Now we have another suggestion: would it be okay to add a field to struct module for use by kgdb where we save the section names for our use. This seems to be the most valuable solution as solving the sysfs stuff is rather hard. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
